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Jacob Hunter Hancock celebrated his first birthday July 25 with a Winnie the Pooh party at the lake with family and friends. He is the son of Kevin “Bubba” and Pam Hancock of Hillsville.

His grandparents are Doug and Carol Hancock of Hillsville and Chuck and Pat Edwards of Woodlawn. His great-grandparents are Joseph Ayers of Hillsville, Edd Crotts of Woodlawn and Louis and Bonnie Edwards of Woodlawn.

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These sentences were recorded in August in the Carroll County General District Court Office, Hillsville. Sentences may be appealed:

AUSTINVILLE — Virginia Department of Forestry workers harvested the Virginia Capitol’s Christmas tree off Coulson Church Road on Monday, which means it will be the second time this Colorado blue spruce will take a holiday turn.
The tree’s donors let the foresters know this tree helped a family celebrate the holiday in a past Christmas.

A traffic stop in Galax resulted in the arrest of a man wanted for bank robbery in Puerto Rico.
According to a Galax Police Department report, Officer Drew Burnett conducted a traffic stop at 12:48 p.m. on Nov. 30 on East Stuart Drive at Woodview Drive.
During the stop, a passenger in that vehicle, Bruno Feliz Rivas, 31, of Allen Lane in Galax, was checked through the National Crime Information Center computer system.

HILLSVILLE — Carroll’s Industrial Development Authority approved a motion to buy two former Kentucky Derby Hosiery buildings at its Monday meeting.
International textile company Gildan, after buying Kentucky Derby Hosiery’s assets, closed many of its American plants, including those in Hillsville, by 2008.
The last offer made by the Carroll IDA on the KDH buildings was $1.6 million, but the authority approved a purchase price of $1.2 million at Monday’s meeting.

The Drug Enforcement Administration continues to warn the public about criminals posing as DEA special agents or other law enforcement personnel.
“This criminal activity continues to occur, despite significant public attention to the illicit scheme,” the agency said in a press release last week.
DEA offices nationwide regularly receive telephone calls from concerned citizens who are the victims of this extortion effort.

Oliver C. King, 18, of Mount Airy, N.C., faces multiple charges after allegedly fleeing a traffic stop on Nov. 21, according to a police report.
King was pulled over on Jefferson Street for a traffic violation by Officer Drew Burnett.
King reportedly fled the scene as Burnett was returning to his patrol car.

Much of Galax City Council’s Nov. 26 meeting was spent examining ways Galax has improved economically and in tourism over the last several years. Tourism Director Ray Kohl reported that the city has been awarded two plaques at recent conferences and that more tourism opportunities in Galax are on the horizon.